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With My Back to the World, Hardback Book

With My Back to the World Hardback

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'Chang has liberated the Ekphrastic form to new lyric heights and depths.

Inventive, meditative, audacious, strange and soulful.

A marvel of a collection that engages the eye and mind as much as the ear and heart' Raymond AntrobusYesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum.

I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew.

I walked into the room and saw it right away. From afar, it was a large white square. WITH MY BACK TO THE WORLD engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract modern artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the human mind can do.

Filled with surprise and insight, wit and profundity, the book explores the nature of the self, of existence, life and death, grief and depression, time and space. Strikingly original, fluidly strange, Victoria Chang's new collection is a book that speaks to how we see and are seen.

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